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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
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CHAPTER 21
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Israel destroys those Canaanites who fight against her—She is plagued with fiery serpents—Moses lifts up a serpent of brass to save those who look thereon—Israel defeats Amorites and destroys people of Bashan and occupies their lands.
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And</span> <i>when</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 33: 40.">king</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/1b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB of Arad.">Arad</a> the Canaanite, which dwelt in the <sup>c</sup><a href="num/21/1c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB Negev.">south</a>, heard tell that Israel came by the way of <sup>d</sup><a href="num/21/1d" mark="d" type="P" title="HEB Atharim (a place).">the</a> spies; then he fought against Israel, and took <i>some</i> of them prisoners.
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And Israel vowed a <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vows.">vow</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 80: 8 (8-10); Acts 13: 19 (17-19); 1 Ne. 17: 35 (32-35).">destroyed</a> them and their cities: and he called the name of the place <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/3b" mark="b" type="E" title="IE Destruction; Josh. 12: 14.">Hormah</a>.
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&#182; And they journeyed from mount <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 33: 41 (41-42).">Hor</a> by the way of the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB Reed Sea (also v. 14).">Red</a> sea, to <sup>c</sup><a href="num/21/4c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR go around.">compass</a> the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
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And the people <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 10: 5 (5-10).">spake</a> against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?  for <i>there is</i> no bread, neither <i>is there any</i> water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sent <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR poisonous.">fiery</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 8: 15 (1-20); 1 Ne. 17: 41 (40-42).">serpents</a> among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
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&#182; Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Confession.">sinned</a>, for we have spoken against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and against thee; pray unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that he take away the serpents from us.  And Moses <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/7b" mark="b" type="C" title="1 Sam. 7: 5; Jer. 42: 4; 2 Ne. 33: 3; Enos 1: 9; TG Prayer.">prayed</a> for the people.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Art.">Make</a> thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Healing.">live</a>.
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And Moses made a <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/9a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Ne. 17: 41; Alma 33: 19 (18-22); TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation; TG Symbolism.">serpent</a> of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
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&#182; And the children of Israel set forward, and <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR encamped (also v. 11, 12, 13).">pitched</a> in Oboth.
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And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR opposite.">before</a> Moab, toward the sunrising.
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&#182; From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
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From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which <i>is</i> in the wilderness that <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR extends from the boundary of.">cometh</a> out of the coasts of the Amorites: for <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 11: 13; Isa. 16: 2.">Arnon</a> <i>is</i> the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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Wherefore it is said in the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Lost.">book</a> of the wars of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
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And at the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/15a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB slopes of the valleys.">stream</a> of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
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And from thence <i>they went</i> to <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 9: 21; Isa. 15: 8.">Beer</a>: that <i>is</i> the well whereof the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
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&#182; Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
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The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by <i>the</i> <i>direction of</i> the lawgiver, with their staves.  And from the wilderness <i>they</i> <i>went</i> to Mattanah:
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And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
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And from Bamoth <i>in</i> the valley, that <i>is</i> in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB overlooks the desert.">looketh</a> toward Jeshimon.
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&#182; And Israel sent messengers unto <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 12: 2.">Sihon</a> king of the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 24: 8.">Amorites</a>, saying,
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Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink <i>of</i> the waters of the well: <i>but</i> we will go along by the king’s <i>high</i> way, until we be past thy borders.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 4.">Sihon</a> would not suffer Israel to pass through his <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/23b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR territory (also v. 22).">border</a>: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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And Israel <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 33; Deut. 29: 7 (7-8); Judg. 11: 21; Ps. 135: 11; Amos 2: 9.">smote</a> him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from <sup>b</sup><a href="num/21/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 3: 16 (15-17); Deut. 4: 48 (47-49); Josh. 13: 9 (7-12).">Arnon</a> unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon <i>was</i> strong.
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And Israel took all these <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 19 (16-19); Judg. 11: 13 (13-23).">cities</a>: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
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For Heshbon <i>was</i> the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/27a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR established.">prepared</a>:
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For there is a fire gone out of <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 45.">Heshbon</a>, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, <i>and</i> the lords of the high places of Arnon.
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Woe to thee, Moab!  thou art undone, O people of <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 11: 7.">Chemosh</a>: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
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We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which <i>reacheth</i> unto Medeba.
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&#182; Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
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And Moses sent to spy out <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 16: 8.">Jaazer</a>, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that <i>were</i> there.
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&#182; And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 4; Deut. 3: 11 (10-11).">Og</a> the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 2: 10.">Amorites</a>, which dwelt at Heshbon.
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So they <sup>a</sup><a href="num/21/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 3: 3; Ps. 135: 11.">smote</a> him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
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